Here Are The 20 Most Pirated Musicians You Stole Money From In 2013

TECHNICALLY, you got away with stealing money from Kanye West this year. So, congratulations!(?) Mr. West’s songs were illegally downloaded over three million times in 2013, according to Musicmetric, a figure that seems low, until you remember that’s three million downloads that could have happened on iTunes, but didn’t. That’s not a judgement, just an observation — who am I to fault someone who thwarts Pitbull from being able to afford a fourth room in his mansion devoted to fist-pumping? Anyway, here are the 20 most pirated musicians of 2013.

Since there is Spotify, I see no reason to pirate music anymore (except for maybe the Beatles and Led Zeppelin). I can almost guarantee you that every “artist” on that list is on Spotify. The ONLY conceivable reason I can come up with is that the majority of those downloads came from teenagers with no income who want to listen to music on their iPod/iPhones when they’re parents won’t give them $8 a month to do otherwise.